Florence Nightingale never set foot in India. Yet from a sickbed in London, armed with mortality data and an unstoppable pen, she rewrote the country's sanitary code, slashed soldier death rates from ...

The US president might learn that starting wars is much easier than ending them, writes the BBC's international editor.

The health consequences are severe. Waterborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid fever, dysentery, and hepatitis A and E ...

This survival story, “Ten Terrible Days,” first ran in the July 1962 issue of Outdoor Life. I want to say something right at the beginning that has been said 1,000 times before, but I want to say it ...

When you had the amount of cred that Humphrey Bogart had, you could write your drink requests into your movie contracts. Here's what he drank at wrap time.

Water is undoubtedly one of the most essential commodities for human survival. It sustains life, supports agriculture and industry, and remains fundamental to public health. Yet in Nigeria, access to ...

Punjab has embarked on one of the most ambitious urban infrastructure transformations in its history through the Punjab Development Program (PDP), placing sewerage and stormwater management at the ...

A Grim Reality in 1859 In the year 1859, a staggering sixty-nine out of every thousand British soldiers stationed in India succumbed to illness—not due to combat, but from cholera, dysentery, and ...

Captain James Cook is widely renowned as an explorer, pioneering navigator and preventer of scurvy. Glyn Williams investigates the standards he set in maritime exploration. The three major voyages of ...

Fowler doesn’t waste time stopping for meals on his cactus expeditions. As dawn broke, a Grateful Dead album played quietly in the background and the men gossiped about fellow succulent lovers who’d ...

Experts warn that the risks will extend beyond immediate injuries, displacement, and deaths, based on scientific prediction and evidence from previous disasters. Floodwaters are likely to seep into ...